An investigation of how Mandarin-speaking children aged three to eight interpret sentences involving the universal quantifier "mei" ("every") and the quantificational adverbs "dou" ("all") and "quan" ("all") focused on how and when the child acquires adult interpretations of the…

Despite exclusion from the mainstream of society in the late 1800s and the early part of this century, Chinese American youth in the Los Angeles (California) area adopted the sports of this country. Chinese American baseball and basketball teams competed with each other and with teams from the Japanese American community. Football was also played…

Differences and similarities in child rearing practices among Chinese, immigrant Chinese, and Caucasian American parents were investigated. Subjects were mothers and fathers of 138 kindergarteners and first and second graders in Taiwan and the U.S. The child rearing variables of parental control, encouragement of independence, expression of…

Because Mandarin Chinese is a language without much morphology in case, number, and gender; i.e., an uninflectional analytical language in which word order plays a decisive role in determining the semantics of a sentence; it seems inconvenient to investigate the language in the framework of relational grammar (RG); which depends heavily on case…

This paper reports on a study of the effect of the family environment on a child's bilingual development, specifically the middle-class Chinese American. The sample consisted of 86 parents attending a show celebrating the Chinese New Year in Houston, Texas. They were asked to fill out a questionnaire consisting of 24 items dealing with parent's…

Script reform, the modification of an existing writing system, is often confused with script replacement of one writing system with another. Turkish underwent the replacement of Arabic script by an adaptation of Roman script under Kamel Ataturk, but a similar replacement in Persian was rejected because of the high rate of existing literacy in…

Developments in Chinese higher education since the creation of the People's Republic in 1949 are reviewed with special reference to changes in admission policies, the use of work experience, the linking of theory with practice, length of course, and teacher-student relationships. (Editor/PG)

Excerpts from testimony presented at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearings on discrimination because of language, employment profile of Asian-Americans, and unemployment and underemployment. (JM)

The first of the three parts of this article provides a brief outline of the stereotypes applied to Asian American Women and a useful backdrop on the other two parts. The second part on Chinese immigrants focuses on the strong family ties of tgis ethnic group. The third and last part concerns the quietness and modesty of the Issei--equated with…

Discusses the successes and problems of the U.S.-China scholarly exchange programs. (PG)

To increase enrollments in Chinese courses, it should be explained that Chinese is relatively easy to learn. The following should be pointed out: (1) there is no conjugation of verbs, (2) there are no suffixes and derivations, (3) the syntax is simpler, (4) the characters are no more difficult than English spelling. (RM)

A synonymicon is a philological work in which words that are semantically related are lined, the last word of each series giving a description of the whole set. This article discusses the history and structure of several Chinese synonymicons. The commentaries written for one, the Erh-ya, are described. (CLK)

Author visited China in April, 1972 and reported here on his impressions. (Editor/RK)

A description of higher education in contemporary China leads to the identification of practices that might be useful in the American community college setting, including: (1) a mandatory one to two year hiatus between high school and college; (2) an emphasis on relevant curricula and on coursework which synthesizes and integrates knowledge. (NHM)